What you can do
- Look at your child’s Instagram profile and a post together. Who should be able to see it, and which details does your child want to keep private?
- Use Instagram’s own help to find settings for a private account, messages and supervision. Show your child what adults can access through the settings you choose.
- Discuss a message request from someone unfamiliar. Your child can leave it unanswered and ask for help without showing you every private conversation.
Avoid
- Listen first, without blaming or shaming your child.
- Do not forward private messages, intimate images or explicit screenshots.
- No app can protect against everything. Do not promise that it can.
For parents
Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
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- Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
- Ask what happened without pushing for every detail.
- Help end contact if needed and find someone you can ask for advice.